Strange wiring plan…
I have to admit I should have checked…
During COVID the company I used to work for decided to open a new facility in Clark the Philippines.
I was supporting the setup from Singapore, but could not travel.
One of my staff realised that the 48 port switch had cables in blocks of 12 in two rows of 6. The patch panel had cables in blocks of 8…..
So he decided to number the cables in the first block in the patch panel 1-6 then skip the next two with 7-12 in the next block …. The left over ports ‘spares’ got numbered after the blocks of six were finished….
I know I told him to number from 1 to 300 and something…. I just expected some logic, but this was not what I expected..
His explanation was he wanted to keep the cable numbers the same as the port numbers on the switch….
Sorry J.B. If you read this, but it was a classic…